Greening Hotels project helps SME hotel install sewage treatment
plant
The sewage treatment plant. |
The European Union funded SWITCH-Asia Greening Sri Lanka Hotels
project, implemented by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce had been in
operation since 2009 and has successfully engaged 170 hotels throughout
Sri Lanka, helping them to enhance their environmental performance
through improvement of energy, water and waste management.
Subsequent to the promotional seminars, signing-up of hotels for the
project and the conducting of training workshops, free walk through
audits and detailed energy audits of individual hotels have now
commenced. These audits highlight major areas where quick interventions
can be undertaken by the hotel to improve energy, water and waste
consumption patterns. The project is also fast becoming a single focal
point as a sustainable activity match-maker for the registered hotels
and the suppliers. Consequently, it was identified that Thambapanni
Retreat, a 15 roomed property in Galle, one of the hotels working
closely with the project was in urgent need of a sewage treatment plant,
to manage their waste water from toilets, bathrooms and the kitchen in
an environmentally friendly manner.
The project engineering staff studied the hotel’s requirements and
introduced a few waste water treatment service providers whose
technologies could be recommended.
The hotel identified the Sequential Batch Reactor (SBR) type sewage
treatment plant offered by Klaro Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. as the most suitable
solution which was chosen with the collaborative guidance and assistance
provided by the Project experts. The sewage treatment plant is now in
successful operation at the hotel premises. |